Chapter 47

A few minutes later, after sending off the members of the Anomaly Investigation team, Luo Yao returned to the pavilion and heaved a long sigh of relief.

She leaned on the railing of the pavilion and looked down at the clear Lake, “I’ve agreed to it, but it’s hard to say if I can do it….”

They’ll definitely look for other people in District 66 to help with the investigation. Don’t feel pressured,” Qin Mengya said in her soul.

“I’m not stressed. The other people who accepted the investigation team’s request in the past have never completed it, anyway…” Luo Yao grinned, “Besides, I only said I’d give it a try. I didn’t guarantee that I’d find the mysterious player. If it’s too difficult, I would just drop it. I won’t waste too much time on this.”

The Anomaly Investigation team was an organization in the Divine Union that specialized in investigating abnormal events.

The degree of abnormality events is divided into six levels, E, D, C, B, A, and S.

The higher the level, the more bizarre the incident was, the more it was out of the public’s knowledge, and the more necessary it was for a detailed investigation.

It was like someone with superpowers suddenly appearing in an ordinary world. Even if it were a stranger who lives thousands of miles away, they would still think there was a need to investigate it.

Although Luo Yao knew that this abnormality was significant, mainly because—

In this world, as long as one has great strength, one can do whatever one wants without fear.

This mysterious person’s strength was the most critical point of the investigation.

If she could find their trail, she would naturally give it a chase. However, if this person’s location were 108,000 miles away, she wouldn’t waste so much time running and looking for them.

After all, the time on God’s Path was extremely precious.

“It’s good that you can think this way, ” Qin Mengya heaved a sigh of relief.

She was worried that this kind girl wouldn’t refuse other people’s requests. She knows Luo Yao would help them to the end no matter what other people asked her for, without considering her own situation.

Fortunately, she was still very realistic.

Beep beep beep~

Beep beep beep~

Luo Yao’s phone chirped in her pocket.

When she picked it up and saw the caller ID displayed on the screen, she raised her eyebrows slightly.

“Huh?”

Qin Mengya, who was in the depths of her soul, was curious and followed her gaze.

He saw that the caller ID was Xia Wanqing.

“Her? Why did she suddenly come to find you?”

Qin Mengya knew that the two were University classmates and good friends. However, in the ten days, she had been with Luo Yao, she had not seen the two of them contact each other.

“I don’t know,” Luo Yao picked it up, puzzled.

Even for good classmates, it was normal not to contact each other for a few months after graduation.

And for Xia Wanqing to suddenly call her out of the blue like this, Luo Yao is pretty sure that she wasn’t just calling to ask about her well-being.

“Hello?”

“Luo Yao?” An ethereal and gentle female voice came from the other end. The voice seemed to say someone who had gained an understanding of life, yet there was no hint of emotion in her tone.

“Yes, it’s me. Did you finally have the time to call me?”

“I’ve always been free… I’m calling you today because I heard that someone in your district has already defeated the Boss in the third stage?”

“That’s right. More than a thousand people from my district and I have reached the Hot Wind Golden Peak. The Wildflame Monarch has vanished. There are only a hundred or so monsters left in the area.”

“Were all the monsters in the second stage also cleared by that person?”

“Mm… Although I can’t guarantee it, I’m almost certain it’s them.”

“Oh…” Her tone was disappointed.

Even if Luo Yao was stupid, she could guess Xia Wanqing’s thoughts. She hurriedly said, “Sister Xia, you don’t have to worry too much. Even if that mysterious person can break the record and rise to level 10, God’s Path won’t force him to take you away. You can still do whatever you want, just like you did with Yun Ji.”

Ten years ago, a female player called Yun Ji had made the same bet on God’s Path.

In the end, the first player to reach level 10 was another female player who was unwilling to be with her.

After that, the two of them went their separate ways, and everything returned as if the bet was never there in the first place.

The only difference was that since then, Yun Ji’s innocence has been protected by God’s Path.

When facing other people, an invisible protective film would appear on the surface of her body, making it impossible for others to touch her.

Even if she took off her clothes, her body would be automatically hidden.

Even if she slept on the streets for the whole night, no one would be able to touch her.

Of course.

This did not mean that she was invincible.

She could still be attacked, and she could still be killed.

She just became untouchable and invisible.

“Yes, thank you… It’s not bad to be like this.”

Luo Yao pursed her lips and fell silent.

“Alright, I won’t disturb you any longer. I’ll hang up first.”

“… Yes.”

There was a few seconds of silence on the other end of the phone before Xia Wangqing finally hung up.

After placing her phone on the stone table, Luo Yao sat on a stone stool, looking at the Green Lake in a daze.

“What’s wrong?” Qin Mengya asked with concern, “Do you feel sorry for your friend?”

Hearing this, Luo Yao closed her eyes and gently inhaled the fresh air into her nose, trying to calm down the spinning thoughts in her brain.

When she opened her eyes again, they were much clearer.

“Haaa…” She sighed once more.

She had sighed countless times today.

“Sister Xia is a powerful and independent woman. In school, she was excellent in both character and academic performance. She is the elder sister of many of us girls and is an extremely reliable person to rely on.”

“The night she became a player, we all held a party for her under the stars.”

“Even in the basic maps, she is as excellent as ever…”

“Since she was young, she’s always been the apple of everyone’s eye. She always had a bright smile on her face… But after that incident… It was already a serious blow to her, and now there’s that disgusting bet…”

Luo Yao shook her head, melancholy as if she felt sorry for the loss of beautiful things in the world. As if she was feeling sentimental about the fickleness of fate.

When her friend experienced such a huge turning point in her life, she couldn’t help but think of herself.

If she were to experience such a situation, what would she do? How would she feel?

As her thoughts drifted, it all returned to the mysterious person in her district.

“Mengya, if the mysterious newcomer indeed eliminated the monsters and the Bosses of the two stages, what level could they be? Is there a possibility that …”

At this point, Luo Yao pursed her lips, and her expression turned serious.

“Could the mysterious person have already reached level 10?”

She knew her thoughts were ridiculous, but what happened today was like a fantasy.

If this had happened yesterday, anyone would have thought that she was being weird.

But now…

Other people might not know, but Qin Mengya was seriously considering Luo Yao’s theory, “Assuming that all the Exp really belongs to him… Then he must be more than level 10.”